OK Guys Exciting times ahead. James and myself will be building our first 26B this summer. So I thought I would make a start on a build thread to keep everyone up to date with our progress. I've copied over the thread from fduk.org and I will get you guys up to speed and then I can keep you updated.

Abit more on progress. Still awaiting for the parts to arrive at top gear Stockport. I've cracked on with engine bay work, and will start some body work soon. So new brake lines are swaged in, running a pedal box for the brakes. Wiring is all chopped back now and removed what is not needed. New forward engine mount welded on and polybushed.

Engine bay is rubbed down and repainted, rebuilt the engine bay with the mock engine slaved in ready for Craig's fabrication skills. Anyway here's a few pics.

So another quick update before the car leaves my house in the morning to Craig's workshop top gear Stockport for all its fab work. Car has be rubbed back to primer, and repainted in red, I didn't take too many photos but here are a few, I'm sure the next updates will come from Craig now over the next few weeks.

Hi guys been very busy designing the headers for the motor which isn't a simple task. Quite a lot of length is needed for the PP so much so that if the headers were straight the collector would be where your backbox is

as you can see for me to be able to fit the package and also be able to run some sort of silencer, we have come forward with the runners to gain as much length as possible without interfering with the pp intakes, I also have the length dialled in bang on the money all four hit the rear of the subframe at the same length.

off the car ready for welding

thats it for the first stage of the primary runners. next will be the tunnel runners to the merge collector and if there is room some sort of centre resonator.

We also got the oil pan base plate cut. first we cut a test 1mm flange in house on the cnc plasma and to my amazement perfect fitment first time only been learning cad for the past few months but I'm really enjoying it.